CMU Sings "The Star-Spangled Banner"

Jack Rowley has a "dream job" at the Fred Rogers Company. Carnegie Mellon University alumni - including Jack Rowley, Sonia Manzano and Bryan O'Connell - have made sunny and beautiful days in the neighborhood by playing significant roles in educational television, which researchers found can help improve preschoolers' learn math and verbal skills. Neighborhood Nod. Jack Rowley was a student playwright at CMU when he met one of his heroes, Fred Rogers, star of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. Walking across campus he saw Rogers kneeling and talking to a young girl. He passed them, and Rogers looked up and smiled at Rowley. That smile might have been fate.